Prison Transparency Project News Today

Organizers behind a new investigation are calling for greater transparency of prison conditions, including reliance on lockdowns and lack of personal protective equipment within facilities in Canada, Argentina and Spain.

—— Authors: Vicki Chartrand, Associate Professor, Sociology, Bishop’s University; Dawn Moore, Professor, Criminology, Carleton University; Jose A. Brandariz, Associate Professor of Law and Criminology, Universidade da Coruna, and Maximo Sozzo, Professor, Sociology and Criminology, Universidad Nacional del Litoral Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky once famously said: “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” And yet most of us know very little about pri...